Differences between standard Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian language

Translate Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian

Serbian (српски), Croatian (Hrvatski)
and Bosnian (Bosanski) are closely related, mutually intelligible Southern
Slavonic languages formerly known collectively as Serbo-Croat. They have about
18.5 million speakers, mainly in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and
Montenegro.

Morphology

There are three variants of the Štokavian dialect that stem from the different
uses of the reflexive proto-Slavic vowel Jat. The jat
appears in modern dialects in the following way: the Church Slavonic word for child, děte, is:

dete in Ekavian

dite in Ikavian

dijete in Ijekavian

The Serbian language recognises ekavian and ijekavian as equal variants,
while Croatian and Bosnian use only ijekavian. In Bosnia
and Herzegovina (regardless of the official language) and
in Montenegro,
ijekavian is used almost exclusively.

Ikavian is limited to dialectal use in Dalmatia, Lika, Istria, Western
Herzegovina, Bosanska Krajina, Slavonia
and northern Bačka (Vojvodina). So, for example: